Chalice Dungeons

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Description

In-Game Description

Beneath Yharnam lies an intricate old labyrinth of myriad, endless ruins. By conducting a Chalice Ritual, the seal to the old labyrinth can be broken, allowing you to explore it in the form of Chalice Dungeons.

Select CHALICE RITUAL at a Ritual Altar in the Hunter's Dream, and then select a Holy Chalice and an offering in order to conduct the ritual and unseal a Chalice Dungeon. When using a root chalice, the structure of the unsealed Chalice Dungeon will change each time the ritual is conducted.

Mechanics

Chalice Dungeons are created by conducting a Chalice Ritual at a Ritual Altar. Performing Chalice rituals consume Blood Echoes and chalice materials. They are optional content and act like a dungeon-crawler, with enemies, bosses and items, not found in the main story.

Including the Short Ritual Root Chalice, there are a total of twenty-six Chalices. There are a total of thirty-five named Chalice Dungeons. Each dungeon consists of labyrinth-like "Layers," with a boss at the end of each layer.

Root chalice dungeons are random generated,the others are fixed.

Players are able to co-op in Chalice Dungeons and even share their dungeons for others to experience. Sinister Chalices can be used to create PvP-type dungeons.

Traps and hazards

The Chalice Dungeons contain many fiendish traps deployed by the watchers and the Pthumerians, an advanced civilization of distant past. These traps and hazards are designed to repel and kill off tomb raiders. However, expirienced tomb raiders can exploit these traps and harzards to benefit themselves.

Trivia

There are several Messengers holding blue lanterns in the Nightmare Frontier, which function similar to the ones in the Chalice Dungeons, indicating the Chalice Dungeons the players visit are, in fact, nightmarish realms rather than the real catacombs carved below Yharnam.